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Hey, so I'm new. HI O_O. lol been racking my brain and lacking in sleep because I have been trying to find a way back into my install of Windows 7. Basicly It can't find my install. Start up repair with Win7 repair disk comes back "root cause found: The partition table does not have a valid system partition. Repair of course just doesn't seem to do anything. Have been at this for round 6-7 hours off and on. Though I am not very good with command line interfaces. Don't know if this is important but where it would say your windows directory in the log file it only says

System disk= \Device\harddisk0
windows directory =

Don't know if it being blank is important. If anyone can shed some light on what I can do to get back in or how would I go about getting some of my 2 days of data'/updating on to my other HDD?


PS. was reading earlier that the log file is kept in %windir%\system32\logfiles\srt\srttrail.txt I can only find as far as logfiles Can't find srt. Blah,
 

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Boot 7 dvd to system recovery options command prompt. Type:

Diskpart

lis vol

( find the vol letter e.g C or partition number e.g. 1 for the system partition )

sel vol C ( or sel vol 1 , obviously use the correct letter or number)

act

exi

see if that helps.
 

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I have found IT!!!

Volume 1 Letter C Lable Windows 7 file system NTFS Type Partition size 74GB (80 gb drive...) Status healthy....


Feel like im so close.....
 

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Any other vols listed?


You need to pick the right one.
 

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SIW2 said:
Boot 7 dvd to system recovery options command prompt. Type:

Diskpart

lis vol

( find the vol letter e.g C or partition number e.g. 1 for the system partition )

sel vol C ( or sel vol 1 , obviously use the correct letter or number)

act

exi

see if that helps.
Click to expand...

I was with you up till act and exi. I'm a command line newb :o
 

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There is my repair cd (I d/c 'd my 320 gb drive)
 

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XFX HD4850 (690 GPU, 1100 Mem)
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CTL 195UW 19 inch LCD
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Thermaltake toughpower 600W
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im going between comps, this is a full on mission haha.

ok so here is what I am looking at


list disk

Disk o online size 74gb free 1024 dyn gpt both blank?

diskpart> list volume

vol 0 ltr d (my repair cd)

vol 1 ltr c Volume windows 7 (the object of my desire) ntfs type partition size 74 gb healthy
 

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Super Talent DDR2-800 4GB (2x2GB) CL5 S-RIGID
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XFX HD4850 (690 GPU, 1100 Mem)
Sound Card
PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional
Monitor(s) Displays
CTL 195UW 19 inch LCD
Hard Drives
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s

Seagate Barracude 7200 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s
PSU
Thermaltake toughpower 600W
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RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB
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Thermaltake MaxOrb CPU Cooler. 2 x 80mm, 2 x 120mm case
I have selected volume 1 windows 7 aka C:

.....and then?
 

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XFX HD4850 (690 GPU, 1100 Mem)
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PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional
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CTL 195UW 19 inch LCD
Hard Drives
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s

Seagate Barracude 7200 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s
PSU
Thermaltake toughpower 600W
Case
RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB
Cooling
Thermaltake MaxOrb CPU Cooler. 2 x 80mm, 2 x 120mm case
Type just these three letters:

act

then press enter

next, type just these three letters

exi

then press enter - to leave diskpart.

close cmd prompt. Take the dvd out. Restart pc.
 

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lol im stupid didn't see ur post. ok so act was to make it active, done. exi as in exit?
 

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XFX HD4850 (690 GPU, 1100 Mem)
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CTL 195UW 19 inch LCD
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Thermaltake toughpower 600W
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Thermaltake MaxOrb CPU Cooler. 2 x 80mm, 2 x 120mm case
SIW2 said:
Type just these three letters:

act

then press enter

next, type just these three letters

exi

then press enter - to leave diskpart.

close cmd prompt. Take the dvd out. Restart pc.
Click to expand...

Ok, will do. Sorry, sadly I stayed up all night and a fair part of today working on something that took u 5 minutes. I'm gonna restartz
 

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XFX HD4850 (690 GPU, 1100 Mem)
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CTL 195UW 19 inch LCD
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Thermaltake toughpower 600W
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RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB
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Thermaltake MaxOrb CPU Cooler. 2 x 80mm, 2 x 120mm case
k, were not there but were getting places. NTLDR is missing crtl alt delete to restart
 

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Super Talent DDR2-800 4GB (2x2GB) CL5 S-RIGID
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XFX HD4850 (690 GPU, 1100 Mem)
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PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional
Monitor(s) Displays
CTL 195UW 19 inch LCD
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s

Seagate Barracude 7200 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s
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Thermaltake toughpower 600W
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RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB
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Thermaltake MaxOrb CPU Cooler. 2 x 80mm, 2 x 120mm case
That's fine - you might fix it with running startup repair 2-3 times,
or use cmd prompt again and type:

bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr ( or all instead of c - either will do)

then press enter.
 
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SIW2 said:
That's fine - you might fix it with running startup repair 2-3 times,
or use cmd prompt again and type:

bootsect /nt60 all /mbr

then press enter.
Click to expand...
k, lol at press enter. I deserved that though. im a freaking zombie today.
 

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Super Talent DDR2-800 4GB (2x2GB) CL5 S-RIGID
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XFX HD4850 (690 GPU, 1100 Mem)
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PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional
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CTL 195UW 19 inch LCD
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s

Seagate Barracude 7200 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s
PSU
Thermaltake toughpower 600W
Case
RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB
Cooling
Thermaltake MaxOrb CPU Cooler. 2 x 80mm, 2 x 120mm case
SUCCESS! It's amazing how quickly u had that licked when I spent way more time then id like to admit meandering through web tutorials and "maybe I'll try this". Just got a new mobo and win7 ulti so you just made my weekend now that they are functional again :)
 

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Super Talent DDR2-800 4GB (2x2GB) CL5 S-RIGID
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XFX HD4850 (690 GPU, 1100 Mem)
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PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional
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CTL 195UW 19 inch LCD
Hard Drives
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s

Seagate Barracude 7200 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s
PSU
Thermaltake toughpower 600W
Case
RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB
Cooling
Thermaltake MaxOrb CPU Cooler. 2 x 80mm, 2 x 120mm case
Glad to hear it.

Enjoy your weekend.:D
 

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    ga b365m ds3h
    Memory
    8gb ddr4 2400
    PSU
    xfx pro 450w
I had the same issue as the OP just now.

Found this thread using my phone. Fortunately, this fix worked for me as well.

Does anyone know what causes this issue? I'd like to prevent stuff like this from happening.

The only things out of the ordinary are:

Solid state hard drive.
Another slave drive was attached with a valid Vista 32 install on it (no steps were taken to dual boot or anything).
Windows update recently occurred.

Thanks SIW2, you helped me out a lot!
 

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This thread has been helpful so far. Unfortunatly I haven't been able to resolve this issue on my PC just yet. I had the identical issue as OP. I went through the DOS terminal and typed:

Diskpart

lis vol

I found 2 partitions, and both were in healty status.

I then sel vol C

act

At this point I restarted and recieved the same error as OP:

NTLDR is missing
Press Crtl+Alt+Delete to restart

so I entered into a DOS terminal again and entered: bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr

I am now recieving the error:

BOOTMGR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

I have run startup repair several times and still I recieve the same error. Does anyone have any advice to help me fix this issue on my PC? I would really appreciate ANY help I could recieve. Thanks.
 

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Hi will,

Let's start from the beginning.

You already have 7 installed and are now unable to boot ?

What partitions did diskpart list, is there a small 100mb partition and your main windows partition?


Are you awake? LOL
 

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    7 X64i5 84002x8gb 3200mhz
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    PC/Desktop
    OS
    7 X64
    CPU
    i5 8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    2x8gb 3200mhz
    Hard Drives
    various
    PSU
    pure power 11 400w cm
    Case
    Coolermaster
    Cooling
    cryorig m9i

  • At a glance

    7x64g54008gb ddr4 2400
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    OS
    7x64
    CPU
    g5400
    Motherboard
    ga b365m ds3h
    Memory
    8gb ddr4 2400
    PSU
    xfx pro 450w
Sorry it took so long to respond. I can honestly say that I didn't think that I would recieve a response so quickely. Thanks for the response.

As it turns out, my buddy had this problem before and he recommended that I check the partion that was turning up as healthy and make sure that it was on the correct HD.

I looked and sure enough the partitions on my primary hard drive weren't even showing up. I checked my cables, and subsequently found the source of my trouble. As oddly as this sounds one of my power cables must have gone bad, because after changing the power suppy cord to my HD it booted up perfectly. Sorry about this false alarm.
 

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